Litecoin mining on the "Now shipping" Adapteva's $100 Parallella Platform

[superduh]

shipping next week.
what is this thing again? like a raspberry pi but with a more powerful cpu?

[turtle83]

shipping next week.
what is this thing again? like a raspberry pi but with a more powerful cpu?

its CPU is similar to the pi's... the difference is it has a co-processor thats really efficient at parallalizable things...

so... for certain tasks it would kick the pi's(or even your computer's) butt big time but programs need to be written specifically to take advantage of this.

[miner2049]

Hi, I was wondering how would I configure cgminer or any miner to work on the parallella computer using ubuntu?

I've ordered a cluster of 4 and I'm awaiting shipping.  I think it will be an interesting parallel computer, even if it doesn't become useful as a script miner.

Thanks,
Miner2049

[CoinHoarder]

You're going to have to interface memory with the parallella somehow to be able to mine Scrypt coins with this thing. That doesn't sound like an easy task...

Sounds like a lot of work for possibly very little hash rate. I can't see these things being more powerful than ASICs or GPUs.